Crossing the Sound

By Peter Irvine

Set in the dying blaze of the 1980s, Crossing the Sound is a sharp, seductive novel about talent, ambition and the cost of winning. Thom Kane is a brilliant but stalled London ad man, trapped on corporate accounts while the culture races ahead. Eliot is young, magnetic and a guitar prodigy discovered on a remote island. Together they form The E.G.O. and set out to outsmart the music industry at its own cynical game. With Rhona, an artist and dangerous muse, urging them on, success comes fast, loyalties blur and hubris waits in the wings. From wild northern shores to peak rock n’ roll London, Ibiza in the sun, European arenas and New York, this is a story of reinvention, rivalry and rhythm.